Oliver location

[NikkiB]

In the 1968 musical "Oliver", there is a lovely crescent-shaped terrace of houses set in a square. You can see it when the song Who Will Buy This Beautiful Morning is performed. Does anyone know if this is a real building and where it is?

[dot.hawkes]

Oh I think it is The Crescent in bath isn't it?

[horselady]

I think it was too dot

[scuzzball]

I live in Bath - and it was definitely filmed in the Royal Crescent.

[scuzzball]

Here are some photos:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/bath18c/bat h2.html
and if you want to stay in the hotel in the Royal Crescent (and hacve just won the lottery):
http://www.royalcrescent.co.uk/

[Memore]

I live in London and people have always said it is the crescent off the A40 before you get to Euston underpass - nearest tube would be Great Portland Street - or Regents Park and opposite the turnoff for London Zoo - it is a Georgian crescent as well but I have to be honest I always thought it was Bath until I was told this story which I have heard loads of times but you know us Londoners we think it all happens here!

[NikkiB]

Thanks for the answers, people.
My original thought was the Bath building. But it always looked too weather-worn to be the same one used in the film.
I suppose a good lighting cameraman was used!

[Yorky Lass]

I read somewhere that it was a purpose built set. The Crescent at Bath isn't listed on IMDB as a location.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063385/locations

[misto]

Because the dance numbers took so long to film, all the sets (both interior and exterior) were designed by John Box and built at Shepperton Studios.

[Fish the Mod]

Most of your right, my father was a carpenter on the set and he built these at Shepperton studios based on some pictures of a real crescent in Bath!

[kempie]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Film-and-TV/Que stion199764.html